1464 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "Opinion"
April 18, 2012
Dear Sir,
Where in the world do these politicians get their arrogance from? Minister Weeks states he will “consider” releasing the report into how the $4.1 million thruster wall at Heritage Wharf was damaged. Minister Weeks seems to f...
DATE: Apr 23, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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What do you care about? Do you really know?
Many of us have a vague notion of what we hold important but have you ever thought of making a list, pinpointing the very things that make life worth living for you and that you stand for? A list of your va...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
April 11, 2012
Dear Sir,
I have never seen such a display of hypocrisy in all my life as I have today on the front page of The Royal Gazette displaying the totally hogwash Dr Ewart Brown is trying to stuff yet again down Bermudian’s throats. Sadly th...
DATE: Apr 16, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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Continuing series on the Bermuda Investment Primer.
Aside from seeing relentless withdrawals from your paycheck, assuming that you are checking each month to be sure that your employer is contributing his/her share into your pension fund that’s rig...
DATE: Mar 31, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
The topic of discussion this week is the United States Supreme Court opinion rendered on February 21, 2012 in the matter of Kawashima v Holder. The Supreme Court affirmed a Ninth Circuit decision that held that a couple's convictions for making a fal...
DATE: Mar 24, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Ombudsman Arlene Brock has every right to launch investigations off her own bat if it is the public interest.
So Environment Minister Marc Bean was wrong to criticise her when he took her to task for her report on Government’s Special Development Ord...
DATE: Feb 20, 2012
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Editorials
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This time last year I was in parenting hell. At just six months old, little Belle had a nasty case of gastroenteritis. From 10pm till five in the morning, my littlest threw up every 45 minutes. As I had chosen that day to introduce her to carrots, no...
DATE: Feb 03, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Democracy should never become ambiguous, where those in authority take it upon themselves, for whatever reason, to determine what is best for the people, without their full input. Such an attitude, like it or not, carries more than a hint of dictator...
DATE: Feb 02, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Right, so in spite of everything or perhaps because of everything in your career, you have arrived at a retirement decision. Make that semi-retire, because if you are like many close-to-retirees interviewed recently, you are not confident that your p...
DATE: Jan 28, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
January 20, 2012
Dear Sir,
What is unbelievably sad is that many right thinking people who ardently support the Progressive Labour Party must now, at last, be beginning to understand that the PLP policies towards foreign capital and guest workers is ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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